When orphan Isis Robinson began writing pen pal letters to his soldier friend Andrew Malone in 1968, he never had any idea he'd develop such an admiration for the man. No one else thought the little boy, who'd been abandoned by his parents, had much to be happy for, but when each new letter came in from Sgt. Malone, Isis was overjoyed. When tragedy struck and Andrew Malone was killed in combat in Vietnam on March 1,1969, Isis believed his life with Sergeant Andrew Malone in it, was over. Now, thirty-six years later, Isis spends his time searching for his birth father. In doing so he runs across some clues in an old country song that put his search for his father on hold. He sought out the writer of the song, which told the story of a soldier who drove a Corvette, the same kind Sgt. Malone had driven during their only face-to-face meeting when he took him to see Mickey Mantle play in Washington D.C. years before. When Isis explored the oddity that the two soldiers, the one in the famous song and his former pen pal, shared the same name, he finds more oddities that suggest Sergeant Malone had been kidnapped and murdered as a kid by a man who was possibly Isis' own father. It didn't make any sense how Malone could have been killed years before he went to Vietnam, yet still been alive enough to write the letters that indicate who his true murderer was years after he supposedly disappeared. Now four decades later Isis must re-read each of his pen pal's letters to find the clues that will lead to an answer.
About the Author: Rev. Capt. Cazzey Louis Cereghino- A singer-songwriter of over 700 published songs, musician of 16 instruments, television and commercial actor, mostly known as one of the Capital One Vikings, novelist of 14 books, a popular blog and over 60 short stories appearing in various publications including the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, former pro athlete, commercial fisherman on the Bering Sea, Worldwide missionary, reverend of near 15-20 weddings and funerals per year, licensed nautical captain, competitive strongman and powerlifter, is a native of Milwaukie, Oregon. In a typical year he will find himself with as many as 26 different types of professions, some of them in extreme conditions in nearly 120 different countries. Much of this time is spent eating bugs and snakes, living in huts, walking on broken bones through the Amazon, public speaking in countries where little English is spoken, pulling hare-brained stunts and adventuring, all in hopes of gathering the next story for his ever-growing set of books. In the couple of months a year he's at home, he resides in Los Angeles with his four-level quadruple bunkbeds, Harley Davidsons, and couches built on stilts. A Polar Bear and Penguin Club member, having swam at or near both the North and South Pole, Cazzey enjoys skydiving, attacking armed robbers and villainous perpetrators on the street, bridge jumping, running marathons while playing multiple instruments, lifting cars, jumping off buildings, running with refrigerators on his shoulders, kicking wild Grizzly bears, wiffleball, traveling, spontaneity, growing his foot long beard and his 300 lb frame, and embellishing all his adventures just slightly, in order to make his stories jump out at listeners/readers.